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Teens and Puberty – How to Talk to Your Daughter About Her Changing Body

Your beautiful little girl is growing up and turning into a woman. You can see the signs and want to prepare her for that day when she gets her first period. You don’t feel altogether comfortable about it and you aren’t sure what to say or how to start. This is quite normal because menstruation [...]

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The Benefits of Communication Skills

What if I told you there was a secret to you being happy, attractive, popular, successful, understanding, in control, loving, and satisfied? What if I told you that you could get all these benefits plus more by learning a single skill? It sounds almost too good to be true. The skill that will give you [...]

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Understanding Authoritative Parenting Style

Everyone has their own different style of parenting that fits their family and their situation. It all depends on background, tradition and culture or how an individual goes about in dealing with the personality of the child or children. One thing is for sure and that is the fact that there is no instruction manual [...]

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Effects of Single Parent Families

In America, single parent families are really frowned upon. The family is supposed to have a mother and a father and anything less is unacceptable in the eyes of most people. Young mothers who head single family homes are looked at as being in another class level in America. Many children are born out of [...]

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Anger Management Strategies for Children

Most would say that it is an understatement when someone says that children are difficult to raise. There is a continuous struggle to define and re-define boundaries, as well as to discover what appropriate behavior is and what is more difficult. One of the problems that many parents have is with children exploring and taking [...]

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Are You Single and Lonely? Worry No More…

Do you have a relationship you’d describe as electrifying? Do you even have a relationship? Are you single and worry about ever finding a hot lady or “Mr Right” yet alone just a lady or a guy? I know how much it sucks. If you’re single, maybe it sucks for you because: Your partner you [...]

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Active Listening Skills for a Good Relationship

Too often the focus on healthy relationship communication exists in what each person says. The idea that one-way messages are at the heart of good relationship communication is what destroys relationships. Active listening skills are a must-have technique to anyone interested in building good relationships. There are a variety of active listening skills you can [...]

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Helping the Aggressive Child

Chuck, an active ten-year-old boy, was fidgeting as he was sitting in the large gold reclining chair. His busy hands and feet were moving constantly, and his eyes were reflecting his fears. Chuck did not want to be in my office but his mother, Pat, thought it was important for him to resolve his problems, [...]

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Getting Your Hands Back On: The Concept of Permissive Parenting Styles

It is easy for a child to walk up to you and state exactly what they need or want. Later, you may notice that your pocketbook is empty, you are running your children around at all hours, and you don’t have the ability to finish exactly what you need. If you have become a part [...]

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The Four Parenting Styles in Passive, Assertive, and Aggressive Behaviour

I want to firstly clear up a major parenting misconception. There is no one right way to raise a child. As with buying a car, becoming friends with your neighbours, or hanging out your clothes to dry, there is no one correct style you need to use for raising a healthy-minded child. There a typically [...]

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